Critics are assailing the Trump administration's so-called 'conscience' rule that allows health-care providers to refuse medical treatment to people, even in emergencies.
and his pledge "to promote and protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious liberty.""that has proven inadequate." It added that these laws protect health-care providers and workers "from having to provide, participate in, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for, services such as abortion, sterilization, or assisted suicide.
"But while the city supports the legitimate conscience rights of individual health care professions, the exercise of these rights must be balanced against the fundamental obligations of the medical profession and the right of patients to receive quality patient care," it added. The Northern California city's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, seeks declaratory and injunctive relief and names the HHS and its Secretary Alex Azar II, as well as the director of the agency's Office for Civil Rights, Roger Severino."The rule provides enforcement tools to federal conscience protections that have been on the books for decades," HHS's Severino said in an email statement to CNBC. "The rule does not create new substantive rights.
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